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Latimore, Sonja, Ed. – ESR Journal, 1992
The ESR Journal presents educational frameworks that promote divergent viewpoints, stimulate critical thinking about controversial issues, teach creative and productive ways of dealing with differences, promote cooperative problem solving, and foster informed decision making. The theme of this particular issue is: "Educating for Democracy." The 8…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development, Democracy
Thoman, Elizabeth, Ed.; Silver, Rosalind, Ed. – Media & Values, 1988
This issue of "Media & Values" explores the influence of mass media on the perceptions about cultural pluralism and ethnic diversity in society. The essays present various interpretations of that influence and the implications for the society. Articles include: (1) "Promoting Pluralism" (Joseph Giordano; Irving M. Levine); (2) "Does TV Shape…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Ethnic Groups, Ethnic Relations
Download full textGoetz, Kathy, Ed. – Family Resource Coalition Report, 1993
This newsletter issue focuses on how the family support movement can help reshape the human services delivery system to more effectively meet the needs of African American families. The newsletter includes the following articles: (1) "Dispelling Myths and Building on Strengths: Supporting African American Families"; (2) "The 'Nguzo…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Afrocentrism, Black Achievement, Black Culture
Cultural Misalignment and Emerging Paradigms. Insights on Educational Policy and Practice Number 24.
Duttweiler, Patricia Cloud; Mutchler, Sue E. – 1990
Societal changes of the past three decades call for a fundamental change in the structure of the educational system and in the culture of schooling. Disadvantaged African Americans, Native Americans, and Latinos, in particular, historically have suffered from the cultural misalignment of home, school, and community. The reform of educational…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Black Education, Cultural Differences, Cultural Interrelationships
Crull, Peggy, Ed.; And Others. – Linkages, 1988
This report illustrates how practitioners in The City University of New York's compensatory education programs are starting to realize that ethnicity, culture, and family heritage have a significant role in the educational and psychological development of students. It provides a compendium of the efforts made to apply cultural knowledge to the…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Compensatory Education, Cultural Differences, Cultural Enrichment
Denemark, George, Ed.; And Others – 1981
The eight papers in this compendium were commissioned from faculty and staff members to provide a research and theoretical base for selected components of a University of Kentucky report on a teaching experience involving mainstreamed elementary school children. That experience was reported in "Perspectives of an Ivory Tower Realist," a monograph…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Crisis Intervention, Cultural Differences, Elementary Education
Wadsworth, Emily C., Ed.; And Others – 1994
This annual journal issue contains 24 papers on issues of faculty development, instructional improvement, knowledge and teaching, and communication in higher education. Many of the papers were developed for the annual conference of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD). The papers are: (1) "Teaching…
Descriptors: Career Development, College Faculty, College Instruction, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Gifted Education Press Quarterly, 1996
This set of four newsletters discusses current issues in gifted education. The first issue includes: "The Underserved Young Gifted Child: Status of Programs and Research" (Joan Smutny); "The Home Education Model: An Alternative Program for the Gifted" (Karen Kendig) and "Jonathan Swift (1667-1745): A Need for Gifted…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, Counseling Services, Cultural Differences
